POOL EXPANSION CONTRACT APPROVED

Diana StrzalkaCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Orland Park Village Board recently approved a $3.6 million contract for the addition to the Park Department's Centennial Pool.

The work is expected to double the size of the facility and add a lazy river with adventure channels and sprays, a 300-foot tube slide, a 300-foot body flume, a T-shaped deep-water pool, drop slides and new locker rooms.

The construction bid of $3,647,206 was awarded to the second-lowest bidder, Williams Development Inc., of Wheaton.

The low bidder, a Naperville company with a proposal costing $3,598,000, was rejected, said Gary Major, director of the village's Parks and Recreation Department, because the village received poor references about the company's work.